IXOLA/AKM-GSIUPDATE: Will Smith took to Facebook where he wished his daughter a special day.
"Happy Birthday, my Bean. 15 years old today!! When you were born it took about 2 seconds to realize that I was willing to die for you," he wrote. "Thank you for correcting my heart—and teaching me how to love without constriction or condition."
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Willow Smith has a lot to say.
And naturally so! The daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith turns 15 today, and she's already accomplished more than most teenagers her age.
At just 9 years old, Smith became the youngest artist to be signed to Jay Z's record label Roc Nation and saw chart-topping success with "Whip My Hair." More recently, the stunning celeb landed her first major fashion campaign as the face of Marc Jacobs and signed to the same modeling agency that represents Kendall Jenner.
With such worldly experiences, it's no surprise the birthday girl has quite a few opinions on growing up in the spotlight. In honor of Willow's big 1-5, relive 15 of her most memorable quotes.
1. On Her Vision of a Perfect World: "The whole world would be one big tribe, one big commune," Willow told i-D magazine. "It wouldn't be split up and divided, we wouldn't be fighting nearly as much, we wouldn't be using unnecessary sources of power. We'd be using free energy, we'd be eating from the trees, we'd be drinking from the natural stream," she added. "There wouldn't be traffic, and diapers and pollution in our rivers. It would all just be transcending into another dimension."
2. On Using Auto-Tune: "I don't like having any effects on my voice," she explained to Billboard magazine. "I feel like putting a lot of Auto-Tune on it really covers up the essence of you and is like putting a cloud over real true emotion."
3. On Her Goals for 2015: "I just want to have dreads," Smith revealed to CR Fashion Book's Issue 6. "I want to embrace my full self, as natural as I can be."
4. On Going to School: "I went to school for one year. It was the best experience but the worst experience," she infamously told New York Times' T magazine in 2014. "The best experience because I was, like, 'Oh, now I know why kids are so depressed.' But it was the worst experience because I was depressed."
5. On Controlling Time: "I mean, time for me, I can make it go slow or fast, however I please, and that's how I know it doesn't exist," Willow continued in T magazine.
6. On Growing Up a Smith: "I carve my own path the way I do is because of the way I was raised," Willow told i-D. "My parents always said, 'If you don't carve your own path, someone's going to carve it for you.' And that's not fun.'"
7. On the Themes of Her Music: "And the feeling of being like, this is a fragment of a holographic reality that a higher consciousness made," she was quoted in T Magazine.
8. On Starting a Family of Her Own: "Having a kid is like — I could never imagine," Smith told Gulf News. "Having a life that you're responsible for, it's too much — you want them to experience everything they need to experience, but you also just want to hold them close to you forever, and just watch them grow. But they need to flower off and do their own thing."
9. On Her Favorite Reading Material: "There are no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best thing," the 15-year-old explained to T.
10. On Her Style: "High-fashion nomad," Willow told Billboard of her aesthetic. "I could literally climb a mountain and survive a couple nights in nature. That's a requirement for my clothes because one day I was on the freeway and I saw a mountain, so I literally just pulled over and climbed it. If you're an artist, the way you dress also gives people a vibe of how your music is and your personality."
11. On What Inspires Her: "Those moments where the mind is completely gone and you're just looking at the beauty of something. When I'm crying and I'm sad about something, I'll just sit there and be like; this is the beauty of life. When I'm happy and I'm joyful about something with my friends, I sit there and am like, this is the beauty of life. When I'm hurt and I'm crying I say yes, this is the beauty of life. Someone sent me down here to experience all of these things. So that's what really inspires me with my music," Smith admitted to Billboard.
12. On Babies: "When they're in the stomach, they're so aware, putting all their bones together, putting all their ligaments together. But they're shocked by this harsh world," Willow said to T.
13. On Brother Jaden Smith: "Having a brother is such an amazing experience," she said in an interview with Chance the Rapper. "Especially when you're a girl, you're just like yin and yang. When you can look at the masculine in him and the feminine, and then you can look at yourself and be like the feminine in you and the masculine, you guys become one and you can go back and forth."
14. On Being Herself: "Nobody else can do you like you. That's the best part about being unique and being on this Earth. The universe is unknown. The universe that's within you is unknown. How can you even know anything about the deepest parts of yourself? It's kind of scary sometimes," she pondered with fellow rapper Chance.
15. On Her and Jaden's Future: "I think by the time we're 30 or 20, we're going to be climbing as many mountains as we can possibly climb," Willow told T magazine.